Reminder: Watch Landsat 8 Launch Today at 1:02 pm EST

NASA, with partner, USGS will launch Landsat 8, the next earth-observing satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 11 at 1:02 pm eastern. Its current name is the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) but after three months in space it will have the cooler and friendlier name Landsat 8.